LETTER FROM LONDON.

The exhibition sponsored by the Sunday "Observer" of the finds of the 2-year archeological dig at Masada - a vast slab of rock overlooking the Dead Sea - has been drawing huge crowds to the Festival Hall. This is an extraordinary re-creation of the ancient past by the Polish-born designer George Him. In 1963 Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, with the Israeli Dept. of Antiquities and the Isreal Exploration Soc., planned an expedition led by Prof. Yigael Yadin. British financial support dame from leading Jewish families & the Wolfson Fn. Masada was the scene of the Jews' last epic stand against the Roman legionaries of Flavius Silva in A.D. 72.

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

As the years passed, Tom grew more entrenched in his homelessness. He was absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.